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During VMworld Europe in Barcelona, VMware has announced that vSphere 6.5 will be available in Q4 2016. Today they made the bits available for everyone to download. VMware vSphere 6.5 is now GA.

I'm confused! Trying ESXi 5.5 the free one which I installed. It says download the tools to manage the server at x.x.x.x. When I go there, it says here you can download the vSphere Client, but then it says note the traditional client doesn't support new features, and to use the vSphere Web client instead. When I launch this app after installing it, right at the top it says I can keep using it but all new features are on the vSphere web client only. I've googled it and tried searching, where on earth is the web client?

Gabrielle.L wrote: The web client is only available if you also have a vCenter server - there's no web client for ESXi. If however you only have a standalone ESXi host (free or licensed) and you need access to the advanced features, you could look at purchasing a VMware Workstation license and managing your host from there. It gives you access to the advanced features.

 Damn Gabrielle, you are just too fast. This answer is perfect. I am going to have to step up my game I see.

Lee, let us know if this answered your question! Darren for VMware wrote: Gabrielle.L wrote: The web client is only available if you also have a vCenter server - there's no web client for ESXi. If however you only have a standalone ESXi host (free or licensed) and you need access to the advanced features, you could look at purchasing a VMware Workstation license and managing your host from there.

It gives you access to the advanced features.  Damn Gabrielle, you are just too fast. This answer is perfect. I am going to have to step up my game I see.

Lee, let us know if this answered your question! It's just confusing how they do it because when you access the server in the browser after a fresh install, it goes on about using the web client there, and then says download vSphere manager or whatever it is to manage your VMs, but you download it from the link it gives you, and when you run that program, it says the message about this program is old and you should use the web client etc.

So just confusing that the system tells you to download it, and then it says it's old, so thought maybe I was missing something obvious. Kind of crazy though for small business, how you can use ESXi but then they say features are missing if you use the Windows application, but if you go to their site and try to buy vCenter it says it's like $6044 lol. Lee.moreau wrote: It's just confusing how they do it because when you access the server in the browser after a fresh install, it goes on about using the web client there, and then says download vSphere manager or whatever it is to manage your VMs, but you download it from the link it gives you, and when you run that program, it says the message about this program is old and you should use the web client etc. So just confusing that the system tells you to download it, and then it says it's old, so thought maybe I was missing something obvious. Kind of crazy though for small business, how you can use ESXi but then they say features are missing if you use the Windows application, but if you go to their site and try to buy vCenter it says it's like $6044 lol. You can get a vSphere Essentials kit, which gives you licensing for 3 ESXi hosts (with up to 2 CPUs each) and a single vCenter server, for $500:  And last I checked, Workstation was still less than $100 for a license.

And ultimately, you can still manage ESXi free from the traditional client - many SMBs don't really need any of the advanced features. Yeah, I was hit hard with this issue this morning. I am trying very hard to not be negative about my answer, but what has happened to me today almost would make me forget VMWARE exists as a company completely.

I did a P2V yesterday and needed to test it this morning. I shut down the physical server and booted up the virtual server with the VSphere client without any problems. But the machine did not connect.

Well, no problem, I suppose it is because it is missing the VMWare tools. I install them, but the machine still does not connect. Ok, I check the network adapters and find that the Converter Standalone has created two new network connections instead of inheriting the configuration from the physical connectors. This is an annoyance, in my opinion the converter should have a way to do this better, but well, no problem, I will modify the configuration of the new adapters to match the old adapters. I do it, but still it does not connect. And then the most stupid things hits me. What lee.moreau and I were informed by the VSphere client as 'advanced features' include editing the guest server properties!!!!!

So I can't modify hard drive size, network connections, network adapter switch assignments, network adapter MACs, etc!!!! Well, it just says I need to download the VSphere Web Client to do so, so I try. And now the nightmare begins. This software, as others in this thread have confirmed, only can be downloaded with the Vcenter ISO DVD. This weighs 3,4 GB!!!!!

More than one hour download with my WAN speed. I contacted my virtualization partner and he confirmed that this works this way now.

I ask him to check the VCenter DVD to see if the VSphere Web Client exists as a separate installed. He finds it, and it 'only' weighs 520MB. Much less time to download, but still more than twenty minutes to transfer it to me via TeamViewer. While we wait he suggests an alterlative. He downloaded the vmx file (fortunately this task is not 'advanced' enough to force us to do it with the web client), modified it for the network cards to be assigned to the correct virtual switch (another thing converter did wrong) and changed the MAC address to match the previous server network adapter MAC.

Then he rediscovers the server with the new vmx file and it boots up and connects right away. Tested successfully. Finally, a task that with the previous management paradigm would have taken 10 minutes only to me, instead it took me and a VMWARE expert almost two hours. And to top the icing in the cake, when the VSphere web client transfer finishes, I try to install it on my computer and it asks for a VCenter SSO component of course I don't have, and then I can't use it either. I don't know who decides these things in the software companies, but these are the kind of things that would make me look elsewhere for the solution. I have been a VMWARE user and defender for years, but this is too much for me. I am a small shop and I will start looking elsewhere right now.

Sorry for the rant. Oscar Gil wrote: I check the network adapters and find that the Converter Standalone has created two new network connections instead of inheriting the configuration from the physical connectors. This is an annoyance, in my opinion the converter should have a way to do this better, but well, no problem, It does.

You can select the network vNICs and configurations during the conversion process. Page 63 of the manual: What lee.moreau and I were informed by the VSphere client as 'advanced features' include editing the guest server properties!!!!! Do you mean editing virtual machine properties? I don't think that's one of the features that requires the web client.

But there are some permissions you need. They're listed on page 151 of the. In that page it is just mentioned that you can change the number of network adapters and select the network that these adapters will use. So it was our fault that we did not select the correct destination network vswitch, but I don't see in that page how to avoid the resulting virtual network adapters losing the physical network adapters IP data or MAC address.

Care to explain? Yes, I mean editing virtual machine basic properties.

Like lee.moreau said, If you right click a guest server and selece 'Edit properties.' , you are informed that you can only do that with the Web Client.

I was connecting to the server using the root account (this is a temporary virtualization host, so no need of deep security implementations here, it is just a standalone server), so I don't think there are any permissions missing from the root account, right? Or maybe they have changed this too? I need to check that manual page to confirm this point, really? So, the bottom line is that the way to manage a standalone server for a small SMB has been changed dramatically.

The new 'solutions' are: - Purchasing VMWare Workstation (so now we have to add a cost to something that was free). Ah, to Darren, so you find acceptable that a customer that could have the ESXi solution full for free, using the host and the VSphere client, now has to purchase an additional VMWARE WORKSTATION license that maybe he does not really need, plus being undocumented which adds the risk that some of the VSphere client features could not be present in the VMWARE workstation product? Ah, and I don't think a blog about a VMWARE power user doing some tasks with an ESXi host via VMWARE WORKSTATION is documentation enough, at all. I would expect to be in the ESXi clients list, and confirmation that all features are supported.

And if not, what features are not supported. Ah, and I just thought that maybe all this was clarified in the ESXi host web page that told me to install the vcenter server to manage my standalone ESXi (which is not logical), and besides not seeing any reference to VMWARE WORKSTATION, I found this: 'Please note that the traditional vSphere Client does not support features added to vSphere in the 5.1 and 5.5 releases. The traditional vSphere Client is intended for use if you need to connect directly to an ESXi host, are performing certain vSphere Update Manager operations, or are running vCenter Plug-ins that support only the vSphere Client such as vCenter Site Recovery Manager or vCenter Multi-Hypervisor Manager.'

Editing these basic settings (network connection, drive size, RAM size, CPU number, etc) are features were added to VSphere in the 5.1 or 5.5 versions, really? This is not correct at all. Somebody is not doing a good task with all these things. Well, this sheds a bit of light on the issue, but again is a bad situation: In this forum there are nice suggestions, I suppose they were given before VMWARE released the repaired client: This article shows the real definitive solution. There is a (are some?) buggy VSphere client version(s?): I downloaded and installed the version suggested in this article and now it shows the warning about the updated features not being modifiable, but it then opens the traditional settings window in which finally you can modify network, RAM, disk, CPU, etc But, if you download the 5.5 update 2 client from the web (like I did this morning), you don't get the good ('best'?) 5.5.0 1993072 version, you get the faulty 5.5.0 build 1618071 version. Fantastic way to lose three hours of my time this morning, due to an incorrectly managed product documentation and download pages.

Somebody should really step his game, Darren, not only you. Set up two ESXi hosts, and needed to move one VM from one server to another, which I finally figured out I could do with the standalone converter. By default, the converter upgraded the VM to hardware version 10 when it did the conversion (from 8). Then, when I tried to connect an external hard drive to the VM, and went to settings, it said version 10 hardware can't be managed with the 5.0 client, and I'd need the web client! That led me to the same place as Lee, trying to figure out how to deploy the web client, and finding out that the tools you REALLY need to manage ESXi aren't free, even if you're just kicking the VMware tires at this point.

Now that I'm aware that you can select the hardware version in the converter, I'm gonna downgrade the hardware version with another conversion, so I can manage it with the Windows client that comes with ESXi. I'm sure glad none of the VMs I'm fooling around with are in production. Can anyone tell me if Hyper-V is this much of a pain in the neck?